Comtesse de Grammont [art original].

Description

Title: Comtesse de Grammont [art original].
Alternative Title: Comtesse de Gramont
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, artist.
Eccardt, John Giles, -1779, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing of Elizabeth Hamilton, Comtesse de Gramont; half length, turned slightly left; in a low-cut, flower-patterned dress; with pendant earrings and pearls in the ribbon tying back her hair
Description: Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably drawn from the picture, copied by Eccardt after Lely, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 181 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 11.7 x 10 cm, on sheet 13.5 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gramont, Elizabeth Hamilton, comtesse de, 1641-1708,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Gramont, Elizabeth Hamilton, comtesse de, 1641-1708
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Comtesse de Grammont. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.